Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-06
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,;,lc ske,ca BY tho Good Quaker
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,r,;,t;er, in Our Dumb Animals.l
EJonn" ,o;l of st. Francis of Assist
It W. S.'1 had attained. through the fer
at q 81 His love, the secret of that deep
Nth God and His creation which,
ns language of inspiration, makes
III. he in league with the stones o.
81 AVA w y and the beasts of the field to
's, ,sace with him. Tho world has
hocn without tender souls, with
Ssl the golden rule has a broader
po m'at;op than its letter might seem to
nt The ancient Eastern e
'.n;zed the rights of the brute
onl regarded the unnecessary TAX
=; the life of the humblest and
ast rs a sin; and in almost all the
..1,r;ons of the world there r
1aans Of saints in the depth of whose
with God and nature all his life
s,.red1v regarded as the priceless
~ heaven, and who were thus n
'.1 TO dwell safely amid lions and
rpents'
n~nperverted instincts that stores
onecdotes of reciprocal kindness
Election between men and animals
y ,lvavs listened to with interest and
.roval, How pleasant to think of
: Arab and his horse, whose friend
!, Inns been celebrated with song and
s.nee. OF Vogelweid, the mime
.sr, and his bequest to the birds.
t,he English Quaker, visited where
+ lie went by tiocks of birds, who,
N cries of JOY, alighted on his broad
[;;n,mel hat and his drab coat-sleeves.
iol Samuel when half blind and in
m cropping abroad of an evening for
s4srs for his cat. OF Walter Scott
Il ,Joun Brown, of Edinburgh, and
air dogs. OF our own Thoreau, in
~;nctiyelv recognized by bird and beast
friend. Emerson says of him:
his intimacy with animals suggested
[bat Thomas Fuller records of Butler,
"a spolorist, that either he had told
,a bees things or the bees had told
in. Snakes coiled round his legs;
he fishes swan into his hand, he pulled
fe wool-chuck out of his hole by his
hi. and took foxes under his protec-
lon from the hunters"
In the greatest OF the ancient Hindoo
Ioems-the sacred book of Mahabha-
ata-there is o passage of exceptional
beautv and tenderness, which records
he reception of King Yudishthira at
lie gate Of paradise. a pilgrim to the
eavenly city, the King had Travelled
yer vast spaces, and one by ono the
bved one, the companions Of his jour-
ev, had all fallen and left him alone
ge his faithful dog, which still fol.
Tl. He was met by Indra and in
tMn enter the holy city. But the
Ing thinks of his friends who have
hltn the way and declines to go in
tho1t them. The God tells him they
eau within waiting for him. Joyful,
is about to seek them, when he looks
en the poor dog, who, weary and
sted, crouches at his feet, and asks
BIT he, too, may enter the gate. Indra
fuses. and thereupon the King de.
res that to abandon his faithful dumb
end would be as great q sin as to kill
Eralmin.
Fay with that felicity whose price is to aban.
don the faithfully! F.
Yer, come veal or woe, will I leave my faith
ful dog.
eMor creature. in fear and distress, has
Trusted i'll my power to save him;
+ therefore, for life itself, will I break my
pigltod word.
In full sight of heaven he chooses tc
10 hell with his dog, and straightway
sends, as he supposes. thither. But
Fvirtue and f%aithfulness change his
s'lnatlon to heaven, and he finds him.
IT surrounded by his old friends in
G presence of the gods, who thus
nor and reward his humanity and I'm.
ltl love.